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2025 Stanley Cup playoffs

NHL postseason tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 25, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The 2025 Stanley Cup playoffs was the playoff tournament of the National Hockey League (NHL) for the 2024–25 season. The playoffs began on April 19, 2025, and concluded on June 17, 2025, with the Florida Panthers winning their second Stanley Cup in franchise history, defeating the Edmonton Oilers four games to two in the Stanley Cup Final and for the second consecutive season.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2025 Stanley Cup playoffs” is nHL postseason tournament. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Stanley, playoffs and postseason, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2025, 2024—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Stanley, playoffs and postseason is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “2025 Stanley Cup playoffs” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.